sausage, polenta and...

This is a simple, quick and tasty dish for a rainy day (which happens a lot in Seattle) lunch. The one tip is to use one pan to cook the mix greens and than the sausages. Finally use a bit of chicken stock to deglaze the pan. It’d result in a very thick and flavorful sauce that you can...

Razor Clamming in Se...

This past weekend we headed out to the Pacific coast for a razor clamming gateway. This was my first time, but fortunately our friends had been there before. “Razor clamming” is essentially the harvesting of the pacific razor clam...

Heirloom tomato sala...

This is an easy and quick salad for any occasion. Heirloom tomatoes with red onions, basil, chilli, lots of olive oil, and your pick between lime juice or...

Pasta con baccala...

My grandma cooks baccala’ in a variety of ways. Once in a while she also made pasta with it. The recipe I used is not quite what she did, but it was heavily inspired by her cooking. Note that in this case I used a standard tomato sauce as the main base for the sauce. in other words I...

bacalao a bras (bacc...

Bacalao a bras was one of my favorite dishes when I was living in Lisbon. From wikipedia: ” is one of the most popular ways to prepare codfish in Portugal. It is made from shreds of salted cod (bacalhau), onions and thinly chopped (matchstick sized) fried potatoes in a bound of scrambled...

How to make scramble...

There are lots and lots of different ways to make scrambled eggs. It really depends on how you like your scrambled eggs. Some like them a bit runny, some a bit rougher, etc… Here’re some of our favorite scrambled eggs videos.     Chef Gordon Ramsey. Sunday morning...

Chocolate tiramisu

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Buffalo mozzarella a...

This is an easy one to assemble in just a few minutes. You just need mozzarella (I used buffalo mozzarella), few crunchy veggies (celery, bell peppers, green tomatoes, etc…), and a good bread that toasts...

Polenta with sausage...

Traditional winter recipe. My grandmas used to make this dish. Grandma Nicoletta used to serve it by spreading on a large cutting board (that she used to also make pasta). She would than pour the sauce on top and all of us would sit around the table and eat our part. Unfortunately I...

Dungeness crab and p...

Quick salad. Pictures are self-explanatory. You can use your preferred dressing....

Pappardelle experime...

Tonight I wanted to make a vegetarian carbonara dish. The thing is that if you take pancetta (or baken) out of the equation it becomes really tricky to give it that distinct flavor and extra dimension that this simple dish needs. It becomes even trickier when you don’t like that much...

Last minute pizza fo...

Last Sunday a dear friend stopped by to hang out with me and H. We invited her to stay over for dinner and decided to make pizza. We were not prepared in a traditional pizza-sense, but we enough ingredients to pull it together. Lately I have been liking the traditional italian bakery style as...